Takes Quotes
7738 Takes quotes by 4748 unique authors
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You can have many different selection systems, but the bottom line has to be a system that, once the judge takes office that judge will…
— Stephen Breyer
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It's a rarity when someone takes a political risk in Washington today in the public interest.
— Arlen Specter
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It only takes one lie to taint your entire testimony.
— Jim Rohn
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It takes a pretty good drummer to be better than no drummer at all.
— Chet Baker
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I have run large organizations, I know what it takes to create a healthy business climate, and I have more experience than Jerry Brown doing…
— Meg Whitman
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If you want to write anything that works, you have to go with the grain of your talent, not against it. If your talent is…
— Philip Pullman
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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny. The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to destiny and that's…
— Alain Badiou
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Our men think earning money and ordering around others is where power lies. They don't think power is in the hands of the woman who…
— Malala Yousafzai
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The geologist takes up the history of the earth at the point where the archaeologist leaves it, and carries it further back into remote antiquity.
— Bal Gangadhar Tilak
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What I love the most about modeling is that it opens you a lot of different doors of opportunities and takes you to many different…
— Karolina Kurkova
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Unfortunately, modeling takes you with no transition from being a girl to being a business woman
— Karolina Kurkova
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Seriously, I think it is a grave fault in life that so much time is wasted in social matters, because it not only takes up…
— Philip Larkin
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Satan gives Adam an apple, and takes away Paradise. Therefore in all temptations let us consider not what he offers, but what we shall lose.
— Richard Sibbes
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Conversion is not a repairing of the old building, but it takes all down and erects a new structure. It is not the sewing on…
— Joseph Alleine
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Consider love: is there a nobler outpouring, a rapture less suspect? Its shudders rival music, compete with the tears of solitude and of ecstasy: sublime...but…
— Emile M. Cioran
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I take a ridiculous pleasure in what I eat and drink. It comes partly from being a bachelor, but mostly from a habit of taking…
— Ian Fleming
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Englishmen are so odd. They are like a nest of Chinese boxes. It takes a very long time to get to the centre of them.…
— Ian Fleming
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Courage never takes away fear; courage simply redistributes fear to get the job done.
— Dan B. Allender
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Studying goes deeper than mere reading. There are surface nuggets to be gathered but the best of the gold is underneath, and it takes time…
— Mary McLeod Bethune
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It takes leadership to improve safety. And I started off the movement in my time, but the person who has done more over the past…
— Jackie Stewart
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What do I consider a teacher should be? One who breathes life into knowledge so that it takes new form in progress and civilization.
— Helen Keller
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I will speak until I can no longer speak. I will speak as long as it takes, until the alarm is sounded from coast to…
— Rand Paul
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Basketball isn't easy. All my life I've been striving to make myself better. It's a full time commitment. To be the best, you have to…
— LeBron James
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One night I'm going to have a big night scoring; some nights I'm going to have a big night doing other things. Just doing whatever…
— Dwyane Wade
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I have my good days and my bad days, but I don't have as much energy as I used to back when I was young…
— Anne McCaffrey
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